2022 to 2023 Departmental Plan: Standing Committee on Government Operations and Estimates—April 29, 2022
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2022 to 2023 Departmental Plan
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Key messages
- In 2022 to 2023, Public Services and Procurement Canada (PSPC)’s work will deliver on broad government commitments related to diversity and inclusion, greening of government operations and procurement, and reconciliation
- One of PSPC’s top priorities is to continue to support the government’s response to COVID-19
- As we emerge from the pandemic, PSPC, in collaboration with partner departments, will seize opportunities to make better use of office space across federal workplaces, reducing operating costs and greenhouse gas emissions
- We will also continue efforts to modernize procurement and use federal purchasing to support inclusive economic growth, with a particular focus on providing procurement opportunities for underrepresented supplier groups
- The department will also deliver on key procurements to support the armed forces, including awarding a contract to replace the fighter aircraft fleet, as well as renewing Canada’s federal fleet of combat and non-combat vessels
Key data points
- For 2024 to 2025, the department plans to spend $1,097 million less than in 2022 to 2023. The decrease is due to the end or the winding down of funding in a broad suite of initiatives
- All 43 (100%) departmental results indicators (DRIs) have a target for 2022 to 2023, a significant incremental improvement since 2019 to 2020 when 33% of DRIs were without a target
Background
The departmental plan is a mechanism of ministerial accountability, communicating departmental expenditure plans for the next 3 years, as well as an organization’s priorities, resource requirements and expected results. The plan is tabled annually in parliament by the president of the Treasury Board on behalf of all departments and published for all Canadians.
Priority activities
In 2022 to 2023, PSPC will deliver on a broad range of priority activities supporting the 5 core responsibilities under its mandate:
- purchase of goods and services
- payments and accounting
- property and infrastructure
- government-wide support
- Procurement Ombudsman
These priority activities include:
- continuing to support government’s response to COVID-19 pandemic
- advancing the implementation of various initiatives to modernize procurement
- increasing the diversity of bidders and increase the Indigenous participation to government procurement
- delivering on key procurements in support of Canada's defence policy: Strong, Secure, Engaged
- working with other government departments and industry to implement the National Shipbuilding Strategy
Work will also be done to:
- resolve outstanding pay issues for public servants
- advance sustainability, climate change mitigation and adaptation, and greening initiatives for PSPC real property and infrastructure assets
- make progress on the definition of the post-pandemic work environment
- continue the rehabilitation of the Parliamentary Precinct
Efforts will be invested to enhance government-wide services and solutions by providing agile and digitally enabled environments and to improve programs related to contract security and controlled goods to respond to evolving external threat environment.
Shared Services Canada: 2022 to 2023 Departmental Plan
Key messages
- Shared Services Canada (SSC) is responsible for operating and modernizing the Government of Canada’s information technology (IT) infrastructure, which is the backbone of digital government. It works with its partner departments to keep networks safe, secure, and accessible for Canadians
- The COVID-19 pandemic has altered the way the government operates as Canadians expect to access government benefits and services from anywhere, at any time, from any device
- With the pandemic evolving, and the demand for SSC’s services increasing, the department is preparing the infrastructure for a post pandemic work environment that supports both remote and onsite work
- SSC will support a digital government by expanding and improving the scope of digital service capacity, accelerating the pace of digital modernization, and, strengthening the ongoing support for digital tools, systems and networks government-wide
- SSC has identified 4 strategic priorities for 2022 to 2023 that will build on its enterprise approach, reflect continuous technological advances, and support the ongoing transformation of the Government of Canada’s IT infrastructure and service to meet current and future needs. These strategic priorities are:
- networks and security
- enterprise tools
- modern application platforms
- enabling the enterprise
- SSC is fulfilling its mandate commitment by advancing work on the next generation pay and human resources (HR) system (NextGen). When completed, this will provide a robust, flexible, modern and integrated HR and pay solution that will meet the Government of Canada’s needs now and in the future
If pressed on next generation human resources and pay system:
- as an enterprise initiative, NextGen HR and pay aims to have the right information required to make informed and appropriate recommendations towards a user-centric, sustainable and efficient digital HR and pay solution for the Government of Canada. SSC’s focus is to complete iterative testing of a solution to support a well-informed final decision
If pressed on the hybrid network model:
- as part of network modernization efforts, SSC is exploring the adoption of an increasingly hybrid network model, where network improvements will incorporate network resources that are readily available in the private sector and scalable on demand in order to efficiently support partner departments. This will increase bandwidth availability and broaden network resilience
If pressed on zero trust architecture:
- zero trust architecture ensures that appropriate users can have access to the right applications and data under the right circumstances while limiting what a user can access and how long they can access it, which reduces impact of any potential security breaches and loss of valuable information. SSC will develop and test solutions to advance components within a zero trust network, using science departments as a pilot case in defining Government of Canada-wide solutions
If pressed on procurement:
- SSC will qualify telecom vendors in specific services areas and will establish the appropriate procurement vehicles and contracts in these areas. The Government of Canada is encouraging interested vendors to include in their response a socio-economic strategy to increase the participation of Canada’s priority groups in this procurement process
Key data points
- SSC’s planned spending for 2022 to 23 is $2,618,895,615
- the increase from 2021 to 2022 forecast spending to 2022 to 2023 planned spending is mainly due to the department’s implementation of the IT enterprise service model, and initiatives from Budget 2021, offset by the sunsetting of Budget 2018 funding and other projects and initiatives
- SSC’s planned full time equivalents (FTE) for 2022 to 2023 is 7,867
- the FTE increases throughout the fiscal years are mainly due to additional FTEs that were approved by SSC’s senior management to address the increased demand for SSC’s services and to support service delivery improvements
Background
The departmental plan provides parliamentarians and Canadians with information on Shared Services Canada’s mandate, priorities and resources for the upcoming year. It describes Shared Services Canada’s core responsibility and departmental results, departmental priorities for 2022 to 2023, and how the work of the department will support the government’s mandate, commitments and priorities.
Shared Services Canada’s Departmental Plan acknowledges the important role the department will play in the Government of Canada’s digital transformation and the post pandemic work environment. The departmental plan has been structured to reflect the close alignment between the SSC’s strategic priorities and the department’s core responsibility, results and initiatives.
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